בידספיריט | Die Brücke : Kunst im


Die Brücke : Kunst im Aufbruch. (With 39 woodcuts by Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Otto Mueller, Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein as well as facsimile signatures of the artists.) - FIRST EDITION.  The expressionist artists' association 'Brucke', founded in 1906, ”initiated a renaissance of black-and-white graphics in Central Europe, which two decades later could not even be stifled by a flood of cheap, popularizing imitations. ... The first 'Brucke' exhibition took place, unnoticed by the public, took place in a lamp factory in Loptau near Dresden in 1906 - the conventional spirit of the audience and the art arrangers gave them no chance in the salons.